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Bhagavāna Mahävîra, -has taken a vow of religious meditation and remaining without food and drink, and he has been lying on a bedding of Darbha-grass at Kollāga Sannivéśa.
On hearing the public rumour, Gañadhara. Mahārāja Indrabhūti Gautama thought :-Ananda Śrãvaka has taken Anasana Vrata, and he is in the last stage of his life. Let me, therefore, go and see him.' With this idea in his mind, Ganadhara Mahārāja Indrabhūti Gautama went to Anand's Pausadha-śāla at Kollāga Sanniveśa. On seeing Indrabhūtı Gautama approaching him, Ananda Sravaka gave him due respects and said :-Bhagavan ! My body has become greatly enfeebled by penance. You would be good enough to come a little near, so that I may be able to pay my hearty respects by bowing down at your blessed feet.
Indrabhùti Cautama, then, went nearer and Ananda Śrāvaka did the respectful salutation
After formal talk, Ananda Srāvaka asked Ganadhara Mahārāja Indrabhati Gautama :-Bhagavan ! Can a house-holder Śrävaka, doing all his duties as a house-holder, have Avadhı Jnāna ( Visual Knowledge ) ?
Indrabhuti Gautama :-Yes. Ānanda ! A Śrāvaka house-holder can have Avadhi Inana ( Visual Knowledge ) although lle may be doing the duties of a house-holder
Ananda Srăvaka :-Bhagavan ! Even though I am doing all the duties of a house-holder, I have acquired Avadhi Jhana (Visual Knowledge ), through whose medium I am able to see and know all Rûpipadārthas ( objects having a form ) existing as far as five hundred yojanas in the East in Lavaņa Samudra, as far as five hundred yojanas in the South in Lavana Samndra, and as far as five hundi ed yo janas in the West in Lavana Samudra, I can see the Kşudra Himavat Varsadhara in the North; Above I can see the Saudharma Déva-loka, and below, I can see and know all the Rūpi padărthas in the Hellish Region known as Lolaccua.
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